History PlayingWith / TeenageWasteland

* '''Played For Horror''': The setting takes place AfterTheEnd where the first anti-adult children have revolted and genocided their adult counterparts to extinction, which [[WrittenByTheWinners is taught in children-run]] schools as "[[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide The best game of Freeze Tag ever]]". The human race has been renamed to the "Juvies", underage pregnancy is now the ''only'' legal form of human reproduction, and kids who turned into adults are exiled from civilization on their 18th birthday. Failure to do so would result in the adult being "[[DeadlyEuphemism put on time out]]", which essentially shortened the human race's lifespan from 80 years to 17 years.

** The TeenageWasteland has a HiddenHeartOfGold underneath that intimidating demeanor.
** The TeenageWasteland has a HeelFaceTurn.

* '''Zig Zagged''': The TeenageWasteland's evil is ambiguous -- the narrator certainty ''thinks'' they're [[ChildrenAreInnocent heavenly little angels]] but only behave rebelliously because adults are unsympathetic to them.
** The teenagers had reduced adults into hiding and their leaders are inexperienced and over their head. The previous leaders, enforcers, and even petty bueracrats were [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized brutally murdered]] Then it is revealed [[MoralEventHorizon ''why'' the adults are in hiding and being hunted]]. The youth were trapped in a social darwinist system to either be the very best or [[HumanResources products to sustain immortality]]. Every last adult killed was complict in horrifying crimes. Despite the current system resembling a dark age regression to feudalism it was still judged as an improvement. Theoretically the adults could have advanced beyond a need for HumanResources but expecting them to suffer and wait for a theoretical benefit is less than reasonable.

** The [[AdultsAreUseless adults in town were unhelpful that even a teenager could be a better leader]].

** Alice and her friends started a [[TheDictatorship dictatorship in the whole country]].

* '''Straight''': Alice and her friends, a group of teenagers and children, rebel against adults in town, to the point of making them the ''de facto'' leaders of the town .

* '''Straight''': Alice and her friends, a group of teenagers and children, rebel against adults in town, to the point of making them the '''de facto'' leaders of the town .

'''Basic Trope''': Children's [[InnocenceLost forced loss of innocence]] causes them to rule over adult society.
* '''Straight''': Alice and her friends, a group of teenagers and children, rebel against adults in town, often in intimidating manners.

** Alice and her friends are gang members.

** Alice and her friends are [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold nice to the adults every now and then]].
** Alice and her friends are just {{delinquent}}s who [[YouMeddlingKids just want to have fun]].
** TeensAreMonsters
** KidsAreCruel

** Alice and her friends only behave rebelliously because whenever they act genuinely nice to adults, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood said adults hypocritically brush it off as attention whoring]].
** The [[AdultsAreUseless adults in town were unhelpful or mean-spirited]].
** Teenagers have raging hormones but their prefrontal cortex is yet to develop.

** They were just pretending to deceive the adults to trust them.

** The teenagers had reduced adults into hiding and their leaders are inexperienced and over their head. The previous leaders, enforcers, and even petty bueracrats were [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized brutally murdered]] Then it is revealed [[MoralEventHorizon /why/ the adults are in hiding and being hunted]]. The youth were trapped in a social darwinist system to either be the very best or [[HumanResources products to sustain immortality]]. Every last adult killed was complict in horrifying crimes. Despite the current system resembling a dark age regression to feudalism it was still judged as an improvement. Theoretically the adults could have advanced beyond a need for HumanResources but expecting them to suffer and wait for a theoretical benefit is less than reasonable.
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': "The MoralGuardians will hurt us if we don't make Alice and her friends evil!"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Alice and her friends are downright ''malicious''."
* '''Invoked''': A GenreSavvy villain deliberately drains all of the innocence of Alice and her friends, knowing that they're unvirtuous in anime.

* '''Exploited''': Teenagers act monstrously in their strive to be taken seriously by the adult population.
* '''Discussed''': "Alice and her friends are so malicious, they're bond to become tomorrow's news."

* '''Deconstructed''': The adults know that adolescents are just little kids in adults' bodies and nobody thinks highly of them because the following stage known as adulthood isn't all that great either.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice [[ShutUpKirk points out to the adult protagonists who condemn her]] [[VillainHasAPoint they are in no position to judge or blame them when the adults were the ones who failed entire generations and lead to a societal collapse and would be the last ones fit to lead]].
* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice and her gang are all [[HarmlessVillain Harmless Villains]] who barely succeed at [[PokeThePoodle Poking the Poodle]] and [[SeriousBusiness leaving the]] [[FelonyMisdemeanor toilet seat up]] [[KarmaHoudini without being punished]].
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice and her friends must prove that not everyone is sweet in a SugarBowl.

* '''Straight''': Alice and her friends, a group of teenagers, rebel against adults in town, often in intimidating manners.

** This was caused by DemonicPossession and the TeenageWasteland are actually sweet little angels.
** The TeenageWasteland only behaves monstrously because they can experience the rebellious power of adolescence in ways that the children can't.

* '''Averted''':
** Alice and her friends are neither good nor bad.
** The teenagers are actually angels; [[EnfantTerrible the]] [[CreepyChild children]] are the real demons.

* '''Played For Horror''': The setting takes place AfterTheEnd where the first anti-adult children have revolted and genocided their adult counterparts to extinction, which [[WrittenByTheWinners is taught in children-run]] schools as "[[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide The best game of Freeze Tag ever]]". The human race have been renamed to the "Juvies", underage pregnancy is now the ''only'' legal form of human reproduction, and kids who turned into adults are exiled from civilization on their 18th birthday. Failure to do so would result in the adult being "[[DeadlyEuphemism put on time out]]", which essentially shortened the human race's lifespan from 80 years to 17 years.

* '''Played For Horror''': The setting takes place AfterTheEnd where the first anti-adult children have hunted and genocided their adult counterparts to extinction, which [[WrittenByTheWinners is taught in children-run]] schools as "[[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide The best game of Freeze Tag ever]]". The human race have been renamed to the "Juvies", underage pregnancy is now the ''only'' viable method of human reproduction, and kids who turned into adults are exiled from the land on their 18th birthday. Failure to do so would result in the adult being "[[DeadlyEuphemism put on time out]]", which essentially shortened the human race's lifespan from 80 years to 17 years.

** The setting takes place AfterTheEnd where the first anti-adult children have hunted and genocided their adult counterparts to extinction, which [[WrittenByTheWinners is taught in children-run]] schools as "[[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide The best game of Freeze Tag ever]]". The human race have been renamed to the "Juvies", underage pregnancy is now the ''only'' viable method of human reproduction, and kids who turned into adults are exiled from the land on their 18th birthday. Failure to do so would result in the adult being "[[DeadlyEuphemism put on time out]]", which essentially shortened the human race's lifespan from 80 years to 17 years.

** The setting takes place AfterTheEnd where the first anti-adult children have hunted and genocided their adult counterparts to extinction, which [[WrittenByWinners is taught in children-run]] schools as "[[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide The best game of Freeze Tag ever]]". The human race have been renamed to the "Juvies", underage pregnancy is now the ''only'' viable method of human reproduction, and kids who turned into adults are exiled from the land on their 18th birthday. Failure to do so would result in the adult being "[[DeadlyEuphemism put on time out]]", which essentially shortened the human race's lifespan from 80 years to 17 years.

** The setting takes place AfterTheEnd where the first anti-adult children have hunted and genocided their adult counterparts to extinction, which is taught in children-run schools as "[[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide The best Freeze Tag ever]]". The human race have been renamed to the "Juvies", underage pregnancy is now the ''only'' viable method of human reproduction, and kids who turned into adults are killed or exiled, which essentially shortened the human race's lifespan from 80 years to 17 years.

** KidaAreCruel

** The setting takes place AfterTheEnd where the first anti-adult children have hunted and genocided their adult counterparts to extinction. The human race have been renamed to the "Juvies", underage pregnancy is now the ''only'' viable method of human reproduction, and kids who turned into adults are killed or exiled, which essentially shortened the human race's lifespan from 80 years to 17 years.

** The setting takes place AfterTheEnd where the first children have hunted and genocided their adult counterparts to extinction. The human race have been renamed to the "Juvies", underage pregnancy is now the ''only'' viable method of human reproduction, and kids who turned into adults are killed or exiled, which essentially shortened the human race's lifespan from 80 years to 17 years.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice and her friends are gang members.

** The [[AdultsAreUseless adults in town are unhelpful or mean-spirited]].

* '''Invoked''': A villain deliberately drains all of the innocence of Alice and her friends, knowing that they're always unvirtuous in anime.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice and her gang are all [[HarmlessVillain Harmless Villains]] who barely succeed at [[PokeThePoodle Poking the Poodle]] [[SeriousBusiness leaving the]] [[FelonyMisdemeanor toilet seat up]] [[KarmaHoudini without being punished]].

* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice and her gang are all [[HarmlessVillain Harmless Villains]] who barely succeed at [[PokeThePoodle Poking the Poodle]] and [[FelonyMisdemeanor leaving the toilet seat up]] [[KarmaHoudini without being punished]].

* '''Invoked''': A villain deliberately drains all of the innocence of Alice and her friends, knowing that they always unvirtuous in anime.

* '''Enforced''': "The MoralGuardians will hurt us if we don't make Alice and her friends evil".

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Parodied''': ???

** The teenagers had reduced adults into hiding and are inexperienced and erratic leaders over their head. The previous leaders, enforcers, and even petty bueracrats were [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized brutally murdered]] Then it is revealed [[MoralEventHorizon /why/ the adults are in hiding and being hunted]]. The youth were trapped in a social darwinist system to either be the very best or [[HumanResourced products to sustain immortality]]. Every last adult killed was complict in horrifying crimes. Despite the current system resembling a dark age regression to feudalism it was still judged as an improvement. Theoretically the adults could have advanced beyond a need for HumanResources but expecting them to suffer and wait for a theoretical benefit is less than reasonable.

* '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''':
** Alice and her friends are felony juveniles.

** KidsAreCruel

** The frontal lobe in the human brain does not reach its capacity until age 25, prompting adolescents feel overpowered.

** The TeenageWasteland only behaves monstrously because they can experience the rebellious power of adolescence in ways that the responsible and wordly adults can't.
* '''Parodied''': This trope is played by an adult in order to mock children's evil cynicism.

* '''Invoked''': Alice's parents are tired of her behaving like a KiddieKid and put her out there in order to show her that [[CrapsackWorld the world isn't all that pleasant]].

* '''Played For Laughs''':
** Alice and her friends smoke and drink to become ignorant to the boringness that is adulthood.
** The TeenageWasteland takes advantage of DoubleStandardViolenceChildOnAdult.

** AdultsAreUseless
** HumansAreBastards

'''Basic Trope''': Teenagers' [[InnocenceLost forced loss of innocence]] turns them into complete scum.
* '''Straight''': Reaching the end of puberty caused Alice and her friends to see everything through a cynical viewpoint and rebel against the adults belittling them more than ever.

** Alice and her friends are felony criminals (e.g. terrorists, murderers, rapists).
** Alice and her friends WouldHurtAChild.

** Alice and her friends have [[EvenEvilHasStandards lines they wouldn't dare even think about crossing]].

** Alice and her friends only behave rebelliously because whenever they act genuinely nice to adults, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood said adults hypocritically brush it off as attention whoring and can't decide whether they want teens to behave like sweet angels or sociopathic devils]].
** Adolescence provides an opportunity to unleash one's psychologically repressed emotions and latent behavior (e.g. sexuality, tobacco and alcohol consumption), since teenagers physically become adults.
** The frontal lobe in the human brain does not reach its capacity until age 25, prompting adolescents to have confused emotions.
** ChildrenForcedToKill caused the consensus that adolescents are rebellious sociopaths.

* '''Parodied''': This trope is played by an adult, younger teen, pre-teen, or prepubescent child in order to mock their evil cynicism.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The TeenageWasteland's evil is ambiguous -- the narrator certainty ''thinks'' they're [[ChildrenAreInnocent heavenly little angels]] but only behave rebelliously because they're no longer physically children and thus hold a jealous attitude towards them for their privileges.

** The adolescents are actually angels; [[EnfantTerrible the]] [[CreepyChild children]] are the real demons.

* '''Defied''': Alice's parents believe that all ChildrenAreInnocent until they turn 18 or 21 and shelter her from the cynical evil of adolescence.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice and her friends smoke and drink to become ignorant to the boringness that is adulthood.

'''Basic Trope''': Teenagers [[InnocenceLost forced loss of innocence]] turns them into complete scum.

* '''Parodied''': This trope is played by an adult, younger teen, pre-teen, or prepubescent child in order to mock their pure cynicism.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The TeenageWasteland's evil is ambiguous -- the narrator certainty ''thinks''' they're [[ChildrenAreInnocent heavenly little angels]] but only behave rebelliously because they're no longer physically children and thus hold a jealous attitude towards them for their privileges.

** The adolescence are actually angels; [[EnfantTerrible the]] [[CreepyChild children]] are the real demons.
* Enforced''': "The MoralGuardians will hurt us if we don't make Alice and her friends evil".

* '''Defied''': Alice's parents believe that all ChildrenAreInnocent until they turn 18 and shelter her from the cynical evil of adolescence.